Improvement in gas-regulators



H'ENH'Y SCHUTTE. Improveenf in (ge-Regulators.

Patented April 25,1871.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY SGHUTTE, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN GAS-REGULATIORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 114,206. dated Apr1-25, 1871- To all who-m, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY SCHUTTE, of Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented a certain ini-- provement in apparatus 4for regulating the supply of gas to the burners from a high-pressure gashOlder; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this speciiication, in which- Figure 1 is a vertical section of my apparatus. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on line .fr x of Fig. l.

The same letters are employed in both tigures to indicate identical parts.

This invention relates to an apparatus for regulating the quantity of gas supplied to the burners from a high-pressure gas-holder, and it is so constructed that the supply shall be uniform from the time of highest pressure in the holder unt-il it is reduced to the normal pressure of the atmosphere, when the supply ceases.

It consists in the combination of the parts of which it is composed, all constructed and arrangedi to operate as hereinafter described and claimed.

To enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

The gasometer which I employ maybe constructed in the ordinary manner of an annular tank, A, formed by an outer cylinder with a closed bottom and open top and a shorter inner cylinder and a third cylinder, A', which is placed with. its open end over the interior cylinder of the tank and immersed in water therein. The gas fromthe reservoir where it is stored iiows into the cylinder A of the gasonieter through the pipe B, which opens into it, as shown. The flowis controlledbya valve, C, in said pipe, represented in the p resent instance as a slide-valve arranged in a suitable chest, C', which connects the ends of the pipe and is in close proximity to the gasometer. The chest is constructed with the usual stuffing-box, through which the valve-stem O2 passes. The latter is linked to the short arm of a lever, D, which, being pivoted at d upon a standard, c, of the chest, embraces with its long bifurcated arm the tank of the gasometer, and is connected by rods D D to the projecting ends of a cross-bar, D. This crossbar is secured upon the top of the cylinder A of the gasometer, and projects at each end through vertical slots d in the outer cylinder of the tank, to be coupled to the connectingrods D.

It is apparent that in lieu of the slide-valve shown and described any other valve or a simple cock may be employed with the same effect.

The valve and cylinder A are connected together in such a manner that the former shall be open all the way when the latter has fallen to its lowest position and closed when said cylinder has been filled with gas, and has consequently been raised to its highest position.

E represents the service-pipe.

This apparatus is especially designed for use upon railroad-cars which are supplied with gas from a reservoir attached to them, in which the gas is stored under high pressure.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of the gasometer A yA', cross-bar D2, links D D, lever D, valve O, and chest C', all constructed and arranged in relation to each other as shown and-described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to the foregoing specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. l

HENRY SCHUTTE.

Witnesses:

CHAs. LONG, D. W. FOSTER. 

